Joe Rubin s an award-winning freelance investigative reporter who enjoys digging through
documents and exposing waste, fraud and abuse on the local and national levels. Joe’s TV
investigative reports have won multiple awards including a 2016 investigative Emmy for an investigation for ABC10 into a water treatment experiment gone awry, exposing the public to byproducts linked to cancer and low birth weights. In 2015, his Nation Investigative Fund-supported story about a $500 million water meter boondoggle was awarded first place in the weekly investigative category by the California Newspaper Association. As a Center for Health Journalism 2017 California Fellow and a 2019 California Impact Fund grantee, he has reported extensively on the risks of lead poisoning to battery recycling plant workers and their families, as well as to people who use gun range. That reporting led to him receiving the Online Journalist of the Year award from the LA Press Club in 2020 and to the passage of statewide legislation which protects California workers from toxins.He has also produced numerous national and international documentaries including for the Retro Report/NYTIMES, PBS’s Frontline World, ABC’s Nightline, Al Jazeera, Capital & Main and PBS’s Expose and has also reported for numerous public radio programs including The World, KQED, Marketplace and Morning Edition.